Movie Locations

Textile designer Ben Rose commissioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s student James Speyer to design the house in 1953, and of course was the location for Cameron Frye’s home in Ferris Beuller’s Day Off where at the end of the film the classic Ferrari California (corvette kit car) shoots out the glass pane window and […]

This home is owned by Largo in the 1961 Thunderball movie, the second movie in the series, although slated to be first, it couldn’t escape scheduling complications. Facing certain death, James Bond has to deal with sharks in the pool on the left side of the house, only to escape what has become a series […]

Roy Scheider plays Chief Brody in this maritime classic, buying materials to make his beach signs from the shop on the corner. “Jaws” glides under this bridge, the American Legion Memorial Bridge, as Roy Scheider does his best to get his first look at the massive omnivore, and where his son gets his first closeup […]

The location of the bench in the movie Forrest Gump. The bench location in on the other side of the wall, but the actual bench used is in the Savannah History Museum. Forrest Gump and Lt. Dan recover from their injuries at this “hospital” location, and used in a number of other movies including The […]

The Corleone family home. Don Corleone is set up and is shot outside this building. Sonny (James Caan) beats the hell out of Carlo in this famous scene at this location. Michael’s Christening was filmed inside this church… And used this church for the external shots.

Tony Manero (John Travolta) starts the movie swaggering down this section of 86th and stops to buy pizza from Lenny’s (center), the order taker played by his mother. The hardware store where Tony Manero worked. The dance studio. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

The street that they showed Jesus walking down to knock on doors, telling of his past. “Eden Therapy”, the location of Sobchak Security, when the dude picks up Walter to drop off the “ringer”. The restaurant where the nihilists order pancakes, window table.